netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 0/4] nfp: protect from theoretical size overflows and SR-IOV errors

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Message-Id: <20180725.221801.2029165624240760094.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Wed, 25 Jul 2018 22:18:01 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com
Cc:     oss-drivers@...ronome.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/4] nfp: protect from theoretical size
 overflows and SR-IOV errors

From: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2018 19:40:33 -0700

> This small set changes the handling of pci_sriov_set_totalvfs() errors.
> nfp is the only driver which fails probe on pci_sriov_set_totalvfs()
> errors.  It turns out some BIOS configurations may break SR-IOV and
> users who don't use that feature should not suffer.
> 
> Remaining patches makes sure we use overflow-safe function for ring
> allocation, even though ring sizes are limited.  It won't hurt and
> we can also enable fallback to vmalloc() if memory is tight while
> at it.

Series applied, thanks Jakub.